v. t. [ Pref. ad- + freight: cf. F. affréter. See Freight. ] To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. affrétement. ] The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. ambréine. See Amber. ] (Chem.) A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. an island in the Persian Gulf; same as Bahrain.
n. a native or inhabitant of Bahrain.
A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
a. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a true bug.
n. a natural family containing the squash bugs and leaf-footed bugs.
n. [ LL. corporeitas: cf. F. corpor&unr_;it&unr_;. ] The state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality. [ 1913 Webster ]
The one attributed corporeity to God. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]
Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Scot., perh. fr. Celt. cor a corner. ] A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. “Fleet foot on the correi.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A joint sovereign. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ OF. darrein, darrain, fr. an assumed LL. deretranus; L. de + retro back, backward. ] (Law) Last;
n. [ Di- + ureide. ] (Chem.) One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. Ureide. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ G., fr. drei three + bund league. ] A triple alliance; specif., the alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy, formed in 1882. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
v. i. To drain. [ Obs. ] Congreve. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖prop. n. [ NL. Named after Dreyssen, a Belgian physician. ] (Zool.) A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (Dreissena polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ OE. forein, F. forain, LL. foraneus, fr. L. foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores doors, and E. door. See Door, and cf. Foreclose, Forfeit, Forest, Forum. ]
Hail, foreign wonder!
Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him,
That he ran mad and died. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Foreign attachment (Law),
Foreign bill,
Foreign body (Med.),
Foreign office,
adj. born in another area or country than that lived in; -- of persons.
n. A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. [ 1913 Webster ]
Joy is such a foreigner,
So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]
Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, either to foreigners or subjects. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. [ 1913 Webster ]
It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. [ 1913 Webster ]
Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Foreign. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Named after the German chemist
n. [ F. fret, OHG. frēht merit, reward. See Fraught, n. ]
a. Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight;
Freight agent,
Freight car.
Freight train,
v. t.
n.
n.
a. Destitute of freight. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n.;
n. (Metal.) Iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Min.) A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. See Greet, to weep. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Icel. greiði. See Greith, v. ] Goods; furniture. [ Obs. ]
v. t. [ Icel. greiða: cf. AS. ger&aemacr_;dan to arrange; pref. ge- + r&aemacr_;de ready. Cf. Ready. ] To make ready; -- often used reflexively. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. [ AS. h&unr_;rinne. ] In this. [ 1913 Webster ]
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit. John xv. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In the following part of this (writing, document, speech, and the like). [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.). [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Into this. Hooker.
‖n. [ NL. See Hetero-, and Nereis. ] (Zool.) A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ In this state the head and its appendages are changed in form, the eyes become very large; more or less of the parapodia are highly modified by the development of finlike lobes, and branchial lamellæ, and their setæ become longer and bladelike. [ 1913 Webster ]